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☆ A Forest Retreat in ‘Tokyo’s Backyard’
  + stars: | 2024-05-17 | by ( Kurt Soller | Josh Robenstone | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Although the two had regularly worked in the country (their firm is currently renovating Tokyo’s Ritz-Carlton), neither of them ever imagined they’d settle permanently in Japan. Over the course of three years, however, they moved out of their Hong Kong apartment, sold their home in Taipei, Taiwan, and bought the last available piece of land next to their existing Japanese property, just over an acre crowded with cherry, pine and larch trees that flash gold, green or gray depending on the season. The pair had considered other Japanese locales where they could one day retire — snowy Niseko; Hakone, by the sea — yet it was ultimately in Karuizawa, Ng says, that they wanted to prove, after years of championing glamour and shine, that they could make someplace “supertranquil” for themselves.
Persons: Ng Organizations: Ritz, Carlton Locations: Japan, Hong Kong, Taipei, Taiwan, Hakone, Karuizawa
☆ A Treehouse Builder Who Celebrates Impermanence
  + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Tom Vanderbilt | Josh Robenstone | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The sensation is a bit unnerving and invokes one of the laws of treehouse building: Heights you wouldn’t think twice about in a concrete structure suddenly become imposing when you’re on a branch. Taka, as everyone calls him — or sometimes Koba-san — is Japan’s best-known treehouse builder. He’s built treehouses for affluent Chinese clients and treehouses for preschools — draws for parents anxious about their children’s detachment from nature. The most modest of his structures, he says, is four square feet; the largest, about 270 square feet. He’s sometimes referred to as a “treehouse architect,” but he doesn’t care for the phrase — “architect” connotes not only degrees and building codes but other constraints, too, like permanence.
Persons: Takashi Kobayashi, He’s, preschools —, ” Organizations: CAN, Treehouse Creations Locations: Tokyo, Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Covid
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